Finding Harry: The Craft Behind the Magic

Finding Harry: The Craft Behind the Magic (2026) is a 26-minute documentary you can watch online on iFILM, built around HBO's new Harry Potter series. It's a fast, behind-the-scenes look at how a beloved book series gets rebuilt for the screen.

Director Eliot Rausch talks to the people who actually built this world — production designer Mara LePere-Schloop, costume designer Holly Waddington, cinematographer Adriano Goldman — about rebuilding Hogwarts from scratch for streaming. There's also the casting hunt itself: how Dominic McLaughlin, Arabella Stanton and Alastair Stout ended up as the new Trio, with Nick Frost weighing in as Hagrid. Short and dense rather than padded, it's worth queuing up on iFILM before the series itself.